Benjamin News

The Moody Fund for the Arts (MFA) today announced it is awarding a record $450,000 in grants to 52 small arts organizations in Dallas.

We're chatting with one of The Music Man's littlest stars, Benjamin Pajak, who plays Winthrop Paroo! He told us all about his pre-show rituals with the other kids in the show, and more. Check out his answers here!

Blank Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team for the final show of their 2022 season, 'The Wild Party'. 'The Wild Party' with book, music, lyrics by Andrew Lippa.

Co-director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus discusses reckoning with American history in 1776. Watch here!

Luke Suri, who is currently playing alternate Frankie Valli on the UK and Ireland tour, will make his West End debut as Frankie Valli in the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical JERSEY BOYS on 27 July 2022.  The show is now booking to 30 April 2023. 

Today, Theatre Under The Stars announced changes to its upcoming 2022/23 Season including the addition of a brand new show. TUTS will be producing the regional premiere of The Secret of My Success. Based on the hit 1980s film that starred Michael J. Fox.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club and 2022 Tony Award® Honoree for Excellence in the Theatre, presents Feinberg & Rose: The Round Table on July 25th, 2022, at 7:00pm.

It has won numerous awards and became the unofficial soundtrack to a generation whose voice was begging to be heard… And now, RENT will take the stage at The Carnegie this June and will run through August. Performances will take place July 16 through August 26.

The area premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice is running on the the Millbrook Playhouse's Ryan Main Stage from July 8 through July 23, 2022.  

ONCE is one of those productions that comes along, once in a while, where audience members can truly sit back, relax, get comfortable, and enjoy as a delightful experience sweeps them up, carries them away, and lets them feel all the feels. ONCE continues at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.

The National Theatre has announced two further productions to be staged this winter, Shakespeare's Othello and Kerry Jackson a new play by April De Angelis, both going on sale to the public on 21 July.

24 full-time dance students from Elmhurst Ballet School, the vocational school in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet have started rehearsals for the opening ceremony to mark the beginning of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Thursday 28 July. 

Maine State Music Theatre’s second main stage production, perennial favorite, JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, takes the Pickard stage by storm, exploding with color, energy, and sheer irrepressible joy. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s early collaboration based on the Book of Genesis has as its central metaphor the coat of many colors, and like that kaleidoscopic garment, the show itself is a rich, eclectic tapestry that weaves together musical and choreographic genres, ancient and modern sensibilities, and perhaps best of all in this production – a diverse and deeply talented cast that is beautiful to behold.

A mythologically inspired play, two award-winning musicals, a world-premiere production of visual theatre, and the ultimate love story all feature in the 2022/23 theatre season presented by the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television (TFTV).

With original lyrics by the acclaimed songwriting duo of Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde: The Musical, Mean Girls), “Captain Crow” is an exuberant track written in the style of a Celtic sea shanty to accompany the onscreen story of seafaring monster hunters. Pre-order the new soundtrack now!

All new production photos have been released for the North American Tour of MEAN GIRLS, based on the hit film.  Check out the photos her!

Audiences are at the heart of this season's programme, with bold new adaptations of big-name classics like The Steamie and Cinderella joining returning favourites including Joan Clevillé's powerful reimagining of the Greek tragedy in Antigone, Interrupted and last year's sell-out sensation, Smile.

The Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award winning Broadway smash hit that defined a generation is ready to welcome audiences to a strictly limited Adelaide season. 

The Spring Lake Theatre is opening the 2022-2023 season with one of the most beloved stories of all time: Beauty and the Beast.

The ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams today announced the recipients of the 2022 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, which encourage talented young creators of concert music ranging in age from 13 to 30.